Clothes-pounder



(ModeL) G. A. MYERS & W. T. SMITH.

CLOTHES POUNDER.

No. 247,391. Patented Sept. 20,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE A. MYERS AND WILLIAM T. SMITH, OF SGHOOLORAFT, MICHIGAN.

CLOTHES-POUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,391, dated September 20, 1881 Application filed July 20, 1881. (Model) To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, GEORGE A. MYERs, of Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo county, State of Michigan, and VVILLIAM T. SMITH, of the same place of residence, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Pounders; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in that class of clothes-washers known as clothes-powders, and it has for its objects to provide an improved means whereby a current of air may be introduced into the shells when the device is elevated, and distributed and forced through the same when depressed, as more fully hereinafter set forth. These objects are accomplished by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a central vertical section of our improved clothes-pounder, and Fig. 2 is a bottom-plan view of one of the pounders.

The letter A indicates two frustuIn-shaped shells of metal, which are provided at their upper ends with short tubes B. The letter 0 indicates a tube connecting the tubes B and communicating with the same. The said conmeeting-tube is provided with two vertical branches, D, which are provided at their upper ends with perforated plugs E, having inwardly-opening valves F. The letter G indicates the handle, which is provided with two branches, H, which are secured at their ends in the tubes B. These branches are perforated .ner by reciprocating it up and down upon the clothes in a tub of water. Upon lifting the device the air is drawn in through the valveopenings, and upon forcing it down upon the clothes it forces the air out through the same, the pressure within closing the valves. The water is thus thoroughly agitated and passed back and forth through the clothes, effectually cleansing the same.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I In a clothes-pounder, the combination, with two frustum-shaped shells, united at their upper ends by a tube having branches, in which are valved plugs, of a connecting-handle having branches which enter the domes of the shells and are provided with valves and airpassages, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE A. MYERS. WILLIAM '1. SMITH. \Vitnesses: S. J. WING,

P. D. MILLER. 

